stonecraftwolf

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by stonecraftwolf 5y ago
Where is the overleveraging now?
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by stonecraftwolf 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what don’t they understand about advertisers?
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by stonecraftwolf 5y ago
Paying for a VRChat+ subscription comes with an increased trust level, so possibly that.
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by stonecraftwolf 5y ago
Again, you have no idea what you’re talking about. You keep referencing talking points from ahistorical views of two societies as though they represent the entire world. I suppose to you, they do? You might be better served by reading about
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by stonecraftwolf 5y ago
The words themselves are modern inventions, reflecting the western medicalization of the concepts, which in turn reflected bigotry — declaring something an “illness” is a great way to get people on board with eradicating it. But gay people
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by stonecraftwolf 5y ago
Something like less than 1% of trans people regret transition, and of those half of them regret it because of social costs, i.e., bigotry from transphobes, and another big chunk regret that they transitioned as binary when they were in fact
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by stonecraftwolf 5y ago
You have no idea what you’re talking about. “Gender critical” people (they are not feminists) regularly harass trans people, including kids, to the point of suicide. They lobby for discriminatory legislation that makes life-saving medical c
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by stonecraftwolf 5y ago
Holy sh*t there’s a movie?? Thank you for making my day!
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by stonecraftwolf 5y ago
I bet you will. Try to be kind to yourself as it happens. My experience is that it can be very painful — like when your leg falls asleep and then you suddenly get circulation back, but for emotions — but worth it.
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by stonecraftwolf 5y ago
Reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal. spoiler warning The MC is a conman, given new life and a job resuscitating the postal service after a corporation has taken over and gutted the Clacks (in-world version of the Telegraph). The
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by stonecraftwolf 5y ago
I would add that this can be extremely challenging (and possibly triggering) for people who had traumatic childhoods. In those cases it is best to start with loving compassion towards a beloved pet, for example — something simpler, that is
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
I’m curious about why you talk about Apple as though it’s a monolithic entity making coherent decisions. Tim Cook doesn’t need to have signed off on his himself as part of a grand strategy for it to have happened, and indeed the only eviden
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
Fuck I hope not. I just googled the CWD occurrence map in the US. It’s...very scary.
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
This is great, but it makes me so nostalgic for the old web.
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
I think RileyJames’ comment provided a clear and realistic hypothesis of how Apple might come to abuse its monopoly power in this way without the sort of reasoning you assume, but it’s also probably relevant to note that Apple got caught co
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
Yeah I think this is how things often happen. Just people being people, and using the tools available to them to get what they want. It’s the monopoly power behind it that makes it so damaging.
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
Did you read the article? The claim is that Apple delayed and denied app approval while trying to acquire the app, while approving the scam apps and approving other apps that incorporated his tech. ETA: I find the dismissive reference to “c
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
Of note is the claim that Apple deliberately sabotaged his app as a negotiation tactic for the purposes of acquisition. IANAL, but this seems bad. Even if it’s legally permissible, it’s the sort of outrage that’s both easily understood by n
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
What do you use to strip the DRM from kindle books?
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
Isnt that also just not how the Pareto principle works? Doesn’t it say that 20% of inputs (people accused of fraud) are responsible for 80% of outputs (cases of fraud)? So this is actually exactly backwards. On top of being frighteningly am
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
You are assuming he will go to the trouble of reading these texts because somehow being given textbooks about how to work with other people is less patronizing? As gently as I can, I want to suggest that this might not be a realistic expect
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
So wait — you were banned by Google, then years later banned by Facebook before even trying to run ads? That almost sounds like they’re sharing ban lists
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
You’d think there would be a business opportunity for advocacy consulting, but I think the total lack of regulatory consequences for ruining people’s livelihoods renders that moot. FAANG can just ignore advocacy that isn’t backed by regulat
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
I hope this attracts attention from someone who knows more than I do, but I can’t see anything wrong with that. The arbitrary and immense power FAANG wields is fucking terrifying.
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
I’m so sorry this happened to you. Can you show us the site?
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
What’s the eventual monetization strategy?
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
This makes it sound as though you just skipped over all the stuff about queer people or political dissidents in favor of the thing you found easier to dismiss. Overall this is an argument for treating human identity humanely, that is, as th
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
No. The ability to abuse comes specifically from power imbalances, and that’s what we need to take into account when designing policy. This is something that can’t be explicitly enumerated in all cases, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be add
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
It really seems you haven’t read the essay. He does not conflate them; he distinguishes between them, at length. I encourage you to read it.
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
If you read the essay in full, you’d see that he distinguishes between copyright laws meant to encourage authorship and what is currently meant under the “IP umbrella,” which is more about protecting monopoly power.

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